SEWELL, N.J. - The Xavier University men's and women's swimming teams started the BIG EAST Swimming Championships with a bang today. The men's team won the 800 free relay for the program's first victory in the conference championships since the team joined the league in July.

The most exciting event of the night came in the men's 200 medley relay. Xavier was out-touched by .01-seconds and had to settle for second place. Knox Hitt, Carter Clark, Armando Moss and Rodrigo Suriano posted a time of 1:31.37, which was just behind Georgetown.

Competition resumes at 9 a.m. Thursday morning with prelims and will be followed by event finals at 5 p.m..